Adam Rzepka
- Associate Professor English
- rzepkaa@montclair.edu
- Phone
- (973) 655-7646
- Location
- Montclair Campus > Dickson Hall > Room 309
- Office Hours (Fall)
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Monday: 11:00 am - 12:30 pm, And by appointment, including Zoom
Thursday: 11:00 am - 12:30 pm, And by appointment, including Zoom
Biography
I research early modern literature and performance, and particularly the uses that they make of psychological and other proto-scientific models from the period. I've published book chapters on appeals to "experience" in Shakespeare and on atomist poetics in sixteenth-century England; articles about imagination as a faculty of the soul in A Midsummer Night's Dream and on apprehension in Hamlet have appeared in Shakespeare Quarterly and Shakespeare Studies. I am currently working on a book exploring what "experience" meant in Shakespeare's world, titled "Shakespeare, Experience and the Ends of Early Modern Discourse." At MSU, I teach courses in Shakespeare, early English drama, graduate-level research, and critical theory.
Education
- BA, Harvard University
- PhD, University of Chicago
Resume/CV
Research
Early modern drama, literature, and culture; performance and reception studies; history of science, especially physiology, psychology, and atomism; critical theory.
Media Expertise
Early modern drama, literature, and culture; performance and reception studies; history of science, especially physiology, psychology, and atomism; critical theory.